Comments on: The Printerville review: Epson’s Stylus Photo R2880

By: Ivory Angelocci

Ivory Angelocci — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:14:34 +0000

It’s my first printer from Epson. It provides decent print quality photos. Best bang for bucks!

By: martin

martin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:18:00 +0000

looking to buy a printer for mostly B/W photography, is the 2880 the one to get, any of the competition better in the B/W department. thank you very much for any help!

By: Ross Whitney

Ross Whitney — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:34:25 +0000

Is it possible, with the 2880, to change the ink pads when they are saturated and to reset the printer so that it knows they have been replaced? Thanks.

By: Rick LePage

Rick LePage — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:52:11 +0000

I realize that the cost of a 3880 is higher than the 2880, but if you’re really going to be proofing on it with any degree of volume, by the time you’re first replacing ink on the 3800, you would already have bought enough 2880 ink to justify the 3880 purchase.

If your volume really isn’t that high, the 2880 is a good deal; I haven’t used any of the RIPs for the 1900, so I can’t say one way or another how close you’ll come color-wise with that printer.

By: Dave Patterson

Dave Patterson — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:37:31 +0000

I need to purchase a 13 x 19″ (A3) size inkjet printer for proofing graphic design work and image retouching. Most of my work is for traditional print media (CMYK), and color accuracy, matching press conditions and paper stock is more important than wide gamut colors and glossy photographic prints. The bright inkjet papers and vibrant inks are great for photography, but don’t represent how images will print on a traditional press.

While researching the Epson 1900 and 2880 printers, I read that the 1900 is more suitable for glossy prints and has trouble with black & white prints. Will the 2880 be more suitable for proofing graphic design layouts and images that will eventually print in CMYK on a traditional press?

As a design layout may contain a mix of color photos, vector (.eps) artwork, CMYK and Pantone colors, black text, duotones, and grayscale (B&W images), I hope to find a printer that can do a reasonable job proofing these.

I work on a Mac (Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.4) with Adobe CS4 applications (Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator), and need to print from all these apps. I’ve read there are print issues with Snow Leopard and the CS4 and CS5 apps. As inkjet printers don’t include PostScript processing, I will probably have to find a PDF format to handle PostScript chores.

My print use varies from project to project, but at this time I don’t think I can justify the cost of the Epson 3880. That said, a continuous ink system down the road may be worth while.

Any advice & suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:25:18 +0000

I have a new 27″ iMac, an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 and Adobe Design Suite CS5. Before I bought the Mac I had a PC and although the printer worked great it now prints everything too dark. I have spoken to Apple, Adobe and Epson and calibrated the monitor and downloaded the new driver and nothing seems to work. I am a graphic designer and photographer and need to have my work print as close as possible to what I am seeing on the screen. Would purchasing a R2880 be a solution? Do you have any other suggestions?

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:23:47 +0000

We are opening a new office and need to purchase a replacement inkjet photo printer. Our business is that of selling high-end antiques and custom furniture. Our merchandise is expensive, and as we receive a number of long distance inquiries, we send photographs to prospects that we want to be excellent in quality, accurate in color and extremely impressive. We print on average around 50-60 photos per month. They are always full color 8.5 x 11 images from high-resolution originals, and we print on Kirkland brand glossy photo paper. We never print matte finish or in black and white. Is the R2880 the best choice for us, or would the R1900 give us nearly identical results? Or – are there any suggestions among HP or Canon options that might suit or purposes even better?

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By: Cees van Duin

Cees van Duin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:05:53 +0000

When printing a color photo with my Stylus Photo R2880 on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, bronzing occurs. I select the usual settings: Photoshop manages color and the corresponding ICC profile I downloaded from Epson’s website. In the printer driver I select Epson Premium Glossy and high speed is switched off. What can I do to reduce the bronzing problem? Many thanks in advance for suggestions.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:47:29 +0000

So I am faced with a conundrum; repair or replace. I am using an Epson 2200 and it meets my needs perfectly. The print quality and gamut is okay for me. However, it stopped printing a couple weeks ago. No color except a bit of faint cyan on the head alignment pattern. Yes, I have tried just about everything to clean the heads and no luck. A local service shop can send it to Epson for refurb for about $275 incl. shipping both ways. And I have about $150 worth of ink for the printer. A new R2880 will cost me $600, plus another couple hundred for ink and I don;t see that is is going to improve my life. What I am trying to find out is the size of the ink cartridges of the 2200 versus the R2880. The latter are $2 each more and have one extra color so the cost of use looks like it will be a lot higher…unless the 2880 carts are bigger. Epson avoids mentioning capacity anywhere on the 2200 cartridge.